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"Admittedly, this video looks like it was shot in 1987 with one of those bulky-ass home video cameras and the graphics look like booty, but it definitively shows that every Star Wars wet-dream geeks have had since motion control was announced for the Wii is finally possible with MotionPlus. Don't believe us? Check out the video. Things get really interesting about 1/3 of the way through the demonstration. Like they didn't know what they were doing making the "sword" glowing green."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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I'm still a little upset with Nintendo for marketing the Wii before launch as a machine with a controller that could do all of this stuff out of the box. I bought one thinking that I'd soon be enjoying games in this fashion.
The WiiMotionPlus is an awesome thing, but I'm disappointed that every controller needs this add-on to have this functionality. I wonder how many games will eventually utilize it considering that every single Wii-mote out there right now will require an additional accessory in order to play the game. I'm feeling a bit perturbed about everything Wii related these days, but if this device isn't too expensive and if it takes off and lots of developers start making fun games for it, then I may some day in the future be glad that I own a Wii again.
That's a pretty awesome video, the add on really has some great potential. I agree that it's annoying that Nintendo didn't have this kind of functionality out of the box, but I'm thinking it simply wasn't possible for them to do so at the time of launch. The technology is getting cheaper, and the Wii has really taken off, so now it a good time for them to make the move.
Is release entire controllers once the WiiMotionPlus is available. By this, I mean don't make me go buy a numchuck, a wiimote and a wiimotionplus all separately; just sell one package that has them all. It really bothered me when I finally got my first wii and numchuks were sold out everywhere but you could find the regular wii mote. Just sell them as one thing for goodness sakes.
As a standalone... I've got 4 wii controllers and will have to buy at least two. This really pisses me off as a Wii owner as I bought the wii expecting them to have used better technology in the controller.
Ninty needs to get with developers pronto and get this implemented backward through patches or something as I've been pretty irritated with the lack of responsiveness in games like Okami.
this would be really cool for a Full Metal Alchemist type action/adventure game where you would have to draw out spells on the fly